Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Complex Plasma Hydrodynamics and Kinetics

Prof. Edward Son
Vice-Rector for Research
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Higgins 235, 2 pm

ABSTRACT

1. Thermodynamics of complex plasmas
2. Transition from closed to open system in complex plasmas in gravitational, magnetic and electric fields
3. Hydrodynamics and kinetic complex plasmas
4. Complex plasma screening
5. Hydrodynamic instabilities in complex plasmas
6. Shear flows of complex plasmas
7. Shock waves in complex plasmas